Diemut - Sabine Hass
Kunrad - Walter Raffeiner
Schweiker von Gundelfingen, der Burgvogt - Hans
Hopf
Ortolf Sendlinger, der Bürgermeister - Karl Helm
Jörg Pöschel - Georg Schnapka
Elsbeth - Helena Jungwirth
Wigelis - Christl Borchers
Margret - Marianne Seibel
Hämmerlein - Raimund Grumbach
Kofel - Keith Engen
Kunz Gilgenstock - Heinz Imdahl
Ortlieb Tilbeck - Friedrich Lenz
Ursula - Gudrun Wewezow
Ruger Aspeck - David Thaw
Walpurg - Annegeer Stumphius
Der Tölzer Knabenchor
| The Opera | Midsummer Eve in Munich in mythical times. Children gather wood for the solstice fire. Diemut, the Burgomaster's daughter, and her three friends look on. |
| 05:40 | The children are warned of the strange inhabitant of one house, Kunrad the cabinet maker, suspected of being a magician. |
| 10:50 | Kunrad suddenly appears. |
| 19:50 | He allows the chilren to take the boards of his house for their fire, saying that a magician needs free space, the sun, and the stars. When the children light the fire, he jumps through it and kisses Diemut to everybody's shock and/or amusement. |
| 25:19 | Diemut is determined to pay him back for this insult. Darkness falls and all go to their homes. |
| 33:44 | Kunrad soliloquizes on fire, love, and magic. ("Feuersnot! Minnesgebot!") |
| 36:00 | Diemut appears on her balcony and sings her Midsummer Night song, enticing Kunrad, who pleads with her to let him into her room. ("love" duet) |
| 45:56 | Diemut lets down a basket to draw him up (observed in secret by her playmates) but leaves him dangling in the basket halfway up, exposing him to the mockery of the whole town. |
| 56:43 | Kunrad then summons his magic and extinguishes all the town's lights. |
| 63:21 | He makes a mighty speech to the small-minded townspeople, telling them that only the love of a virgin will restore their light. |
| 72:50 | The dismayed townspeople beg Diemut to relent and to lose her 'lirum-larum-lei'. She draws Kunrad into her room. |
| 79:45 | During the orchestral interlude ("Love Scene") a light begins to glow in Diemut's room. |
| 85:05 | At the orchestral climax, all the fires in the city are restored. Everyone,
including Diemut and Kunrad, rejoice.
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